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Coding for Dummies

WILEYCoding For Dummies, (9781119293323) was previously published as Coding For Dummies, (9781118951309). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product.

Hands-on exercises help you learn to code like a pro

No coding experience is required for Coding For Dummies, your one-stop guide to building a foundation of knowledge in writing computer code for web, application, and software development. It doesn't matter if you've dabbled in coding or never written a line of code, this book guides you through the basics. Using foundational web development languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it explains in plain English how coding works and why it's needed.

Online exercises developed by Codecademy, a leading online code training site, help hone coding skills and demonstrate results as you practice.

The site provides an environment where you can try out tutorials built into the text and see the actual output from your coding. You'll also gain access to end-of-chapter challenges to apply newly acquired skills to a less-defined assignment. So what are you waiting for?

The current demand for workers with coding and computer science skills far exceeds the supply

Teaches the foundations of web development languages in an easy-to-understand format

Offers unprecedented opportunities to practice basic coding languages

Readers can access online hands-on exercises and end-of-chapter assessments that develop and test their new-found skills

If you're a student looking for an introduction to the basic concepts of coding or a professional looking to add new skills, Coding For Dummies has you covered.

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Overall, this is a good book, especially for beginners, but one major point of contention. The author states that Tim Berners-Lee created or invented HTML -- incorrect. Berners-Lee, an excellent engineer so I am not be derogatory, just historically accurate, copied a subset of the publicly domained SGML and tweaked it for the Web, calling it HTML. SGML was the publicly domained version of IBM's GML, or General Markup Language. Just as it was Van Jacobsen who was responsible for the HTTP protocol; good to keep history as accurate as possible.